The marketing for writer-director Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t shy about pushing this mixed martial arts ...

From Benny Safdie, half of the Safdie Brothers whose Good Time and Uncut Gems pulled exactly zero punches with their ...

Mark Kerr is back inside the Octagon … well, sorta. The celebrated heavyweight bruiser is now a playable fighter in the UFC 5 ...

Benny Safdie wants to challenge our expectations of the traditional sports movie. His first solo directorial outing without ...

Emily Blunt talks the serendipitous way Benny Safdie's 'The Smashing Machine' came together and what it took from her and ...

The Rock goes for broke in Benny Safdie's sports biopic about MMA star Mark Kerr — but it's more of a mellow mood piece than a battle royale.

The Smashing Machine’ is Dwayne Johnson’s attempt at Oscar-level respect as an actor, with director Benny Safdie doing his ...

The former two-division Bellator MMA titleholder makes his feature-film debut in the Benny Safdie-helmed biopic on two-time ...

Benny Safdie says his work as director of The Smashing Machine benefitted from his wildly successful second career as an ...

The Rock packed on the pounds to portray college wrestler turned MMA fighter Mark Kerr in the deeply personal film he says “turned into more than a movie.” ...

During an appearance Tuesday on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, WWE legend Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson described the legitimate physical pain he endured in a particular scene for the upcoming movie ...

The celebrated filmmaker and actor sat down with Q’s Tom Power at this year’s TIFF to talk about his highly anticipated new ...